forcast
obsolete
forcast is a verb meaning “To cast away; reject” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-C-A-S-T, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does forcast mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo cast away; reject.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forcast
- forcasts present, singular, he/she/it
- forcasting participle, present
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forcast?
Forcast appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does forcast come from?
From Middle English forcasten (“to cast away, reject”). Cognate with Swedish förkasta (“to reject”). Cf. forcasten. By surface analysis, for- + cast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).